3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Emergent aggregation from collective foraging
Gorka Muñoz-Gil, Andrea López-Incera, Vide Ramsten +3
Collective behaviour in living systems is usually modelled as the outcome of a \emph{direct} social drive: agents are rewarded, or hard-wired, to align with or approach their neigh…
q-bio.PE2020
Collective defense of honeybee colonies: experimental results and theoretical modeling
Andrea López-Incera, Morgane Nouvian, Katja Ried +2
Social insect colonies routinely face large vertebrate predators, against which they need to mount a collective defense. To do so, honeybees use an alarm pheromone that recruits ne…
q-bio.PE2020
Development of swarm behavior in artificial learning agents that adapt to different foraging environments
Andrea López-Incera, Katja Ried, Thomas Müller +1
Collective behavior, and swarm formation in particular, has been studied from several perspectives within a large variety of fields, ranging from biology to physics. In this work,…